Bocage

The main struggle raged in a broken, wooded, and almost inaccessible district called the Bocage, where there were few towns and no good roads.

Lectures on the French Revolution John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

He had driven her over to stay, for three or four days, at a small estate of his own, some forty miles to the southeast of Nantes, in the heart of what was called the Bocage -- a wild country, with thick woods, narrow lanes, high hedges, and scattered villages and farms, much more English in appearance than the country round Nantes.

No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee Stanley L. Wood 1867

This was in the tract surrounding the Loire, the south of which is now called La Vendée, and was then termed the Bocage, or the Woodland.

A Book of Golden Deeds 1864

“There's Le Bocage, the quaint little place that started the whole nouvelle cuisine craze in the Boston area.”

In Which Mad Dog Kicks French Women's Bony Butts Con Chapman 2011

The setting in the charming Roque, however, its name of obscure provenance originating in the 12th century, not taken from the Tolkien character, "the Lord of Gifts," seduced me to such an extent with its music, its people and its food particularly the superb restaurant, Le Bocage, that I stayed an additional three days and heard a succession of performances that took my breath away.

Laurence Vittes: Pianists Are Lords of the Ring in La Roque d'Anthéron's Festival 2011 Laurence Vittes 2011

The setting in the charming Roque, however, its name of obscure provenance originating in the 12th century, not taken from the Tolkien character, "the Lord of Gifts," seduced me to such an extent with its music, its people and its food particularly the superb restaurant, Le Bocage, that I stayed an additional three days and heard a succession of performances that took my breath away.

Laurence Vittes: Pianists Are Lords of the Ring in La Roque d'Anthéron's Festival 2011 Laurence Vittes 2011

Cedar Lodge rhymes with Bocage ... maybe that's the idea.

Your Right Hand Thief 2008

"Entre 1969 et 1972, écrit Jeanne Favret-Saada, j'ai travaillé dans une région bocagère du nord-ouest de la France que j'ai voulu protéger de la curiosité médiatique - si vive pour tout ce qui touche à la sorcellerie - en la désignant par l'expression vague de "Bocage de l'Ouest français"."

Unbewitching Jeanne Favret-Saada Christopher 2009

"Entre 1969 et 1972, écrit Jeanne Favret-Saada, j'ai travaillé dans une région bocagère du nord-ouest de la France que j'ai voulu protéger de la curiosité médiatique - si vive pour tout ce qui touche à la sorcellerie - en la désignant par l'expression vague de "Bocage de l'Ouest français"."

Archive 2009-06-01 Christopher 2009

Parthenay, and that it was his intention to proceed from thence into the Bocage, by way of Amaillou and Bressuire.

La Vend�e 2004